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A place to share screenshots of Microblog posts, whether from Mastodon, tumblr, ~~Twitter~~ X, KBin, Threads or elsewhere.

Created as an evolution of White People Twitter and other tweet-capture subreddits.

RULES:

  1. Your post must be a screen capture of a microblog-type post that includes the UI of the site it came from, preferably also including the avatar and username of the original poster. Including relevant comments made to the original post is encouraged.
  2. Your post, included comments, or your title/comment should include some kind of commentary or remark on the subject of the screen capture. Your title must include at least one word relevant to your post.
  3. You are encouraged to provide a link back to the source of your screen capture in the body of your post.
  4. Current politics and news are allowed, but discouraged. There MUST be some kind of human commentary/reaction included (either by the original poster or you). Just news articles or headlines will be deleted.
  5. Doctored posts/images and AI are allowed, but discouraged. You MUST indicate this in your post (even if you didn't originally know). If an image is found to be fabricated or edited in any way and it is not properly labeled, it will be deleted.
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[–] Hegar@fedia.io 38 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

So one of the fun things about generations of endogamous marriage (marrying within your group) is that it leads to a "background" level of relatedness with people you don't know.

So in Ashkenazi communities that still do arranged marriage, they often do genetic testing first - because even without knowing each other, a bride and groom could possibly have a genetic closeness equivilant to maybe cousins.

A lot of communities in India show this phenomenon too.

[–] Venator 7 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I wonder whether it's only really required for arranged marriages because that subverts the usual smell test that people do naturally that tend to detect people with similar immune systems, or if it's just that some people put more thought into arranged marriages...

[–] Hegar@fedia.io 8 points 3 weeks ago

Has it been shown that we're smellin' for incest, so to speak? We definitely seem to have a smell test but has it been shown to include that?

I don't think it was because of the arranged marriage - just that experienced matchmakers knew they had to account for that.